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Just like I don't buy the argument that so many authors make, that they would "never" return a book, because they know how much blood, sweat and tears the author put into it, how hurt their feelings will be, etc. Really? What, that's somehow different for other people who work? If someone makes something and sells it, does that mean that the buyer can't return it, because the builder/carver/whatever put their heart and soul into it? Or is it ONLY authors that bleed for their work? It's WORK. I can just imagine--if I hired some new bookmaker and an author came to me for book design. New Bookmaker--we'll call her Suzie--puts her heart and soul into it, but, meh, the layout is bad. Should the author keep the layout, because poor little Suzie will cry? Or, do you think that the author will rightly demand that I bloody well fix it? That author's book, and my work, are the same thing--commercial service products. No damn difference. If an author writes a book and puts it up for free, on Wattpad, A03, etc. then I will be exceedingly gentle with any critique, because that person is not saying to me that they've done everything possible--that this product is commercially ready to be bought. Once an author chooses to launch their own small business--become a publisher, NOT an author--then s/he has an obligation to those that buy his/her service, to make it a commercially-viable product. Not schlock or dreck. Quote:
Don't assume that I'm finishing those books and returning them because I'm cheap. I'm not a) finishing them and b) the pricing has nothing to do with it--most of them are $0.99-$1.99 or thereabouts. It's that, or I'll leave a review and honestly, I still think that they'd rather refund that $0.66 or the $1.20 or whatever, than get a bad review. When I've polled my customers, that's their overwhelming response. I just see no good purpose served, other than throwing my money away, in buying a book that's lousy and allowing the author to assume that you loved it. You're hardly doing him any damned service. Hitch |
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And yet I suspect the lion’s share of returns are self-pubs. They may be treated equally, but the self-pub aficionado relies on it more. Self-pubbed truly is a special category; the qc just isn’t the same overall.
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And again, you define your situations so narrowly as to be absurd. I have every faith that Amazon’s algorithms are much more flexible than that. I’m sure returns are looked at in the context of sales/profits from an account overall. The person who’s returning two books of three each month is going to be flagged much sooner than the person who’s returning two of thirty - I suspect Amazon loves that latter customer, in fact. Nuance matters. Look, I’m not saying that each person doesn’t have an obligation to act morally. They do and yet some don’t. But sometimes all you can do is look after your own behavior and let the chips fall where they may. And in this case, where the victims, i.e. Amazon and the authors, are doing better by tolerating returns, I truly don’t get your beef. |
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06-28-2022, 11:11 PM | #65 |
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Twenty-eight occurrences of "lead" that should have been " led", no "led" occurrences at all. Much more annoying than meals ending with a desert.
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06-29-2022, 06:33 AM | #67 |
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Thanks. Your initial post did not indicate multiple occurrences. typos/poor editing like that don't trigger me much, although one I see a lot that is mildly irksome is "discrete" for "discreet". I guess that's a separate issue though.
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06-29-2022, 07:04 AM | #68 |
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Any craftsman, whatever trade they are in, should take pride in their work. In my line of work, I find that fully 60% of bench jewelers should go into another line of work. I have been a bench jeweler for 43 years and I have seen some truly awful work put out by jewelers. I have also seen some amazing work by jewelers. I cannot speak for other industries, but I feel that it is probably close to the same. I had a customer come in Saturday with a wedding set that a local store had sized. It had been sent out to a wholesale jeweler. The sizing was abysmal, and the jeweler should be ashamed of what he did. The store should have inspected it when it came back, but obviously did not do so. The store they purchased the rings from refused to do anything about it. The store should have sent it back and demanded that the job be done correctly. Now I have to charge a customer to fix something she should not have to pay for. So yes, there should be laws to force companies to accept returns or repair merchandise that is shoddy and poorly crafted. Those laws that do exist are usually hard to enforce at a retail level when the only recourse the customer has is seeking expensive legal assistance.
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The usual scheme has the trading standards office of the borough, consumer advocate at your Better Business office or a master jewellers guild look into the problem.
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This topic reminds me a lot of the opinions around DRM. Whether to have a liberal policy that benefits consumers but is open to potential abuse by bad actors or a restrictive policy that punishes everyone.
In the case of DRM Amazon leaves the choice to the publisher. Perhaps this could be done for returns also. A large banner on the page stating, “The publisher of this book does not allow returns. You must agree to this before purchasing.” I doubt that Amazon would do that though. (Added: I know that Amazon has been slowly adding DRM even if the publisher does not want it.) Last edited by jhowell; 06-29-2022 at 09:04 AM. |
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You can turn off 1-click on per-device basis (except for Kindles, it looks like) or 'everywhere' in your Amazon account settings.
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